John Green Quotes about Suffering

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I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

John Green

Hurt, Parent, Suffering

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.116, Penguin

Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

John Green

Jesus, Promise, Suffering

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

John Green

Suffering, Band, Tone

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.439, Penguin

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

John Green

Suffering, Nihilism, Problem

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

John Green

Kissing, Suffering, Said

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.54, Penguin UK

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

John Green

Pain, Suffering, New Life

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

John Green

Mistake, Suffering, Wish

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.139, Penguin UK